Monday, 28 September 2015

Those who can laugh without cause have either
found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad! - Norm Papernick

To be happy with a man, you must understand
him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman, you must love her a
lot and not try to understand her at all. - Helen
Rowland

To be successful in life, there are many hurdles
you have to overcome. For me, the biggest hurdle to success has always been
failure. - Christopher Titus

To err is human, but to really foul things up
you need a computer. - Paul Ehrlich

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one
must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to
suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to
love, to be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy,
therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too
much happiness – I hope you're getting this down. - Woody Allen

To
succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. - Benjamin Franklin

Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, yet the
youngest you’ll ever be, so enjoy this day while it lasts. - Unknown

Two
wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse. - Thomas Szasz

Unless
you hear it from the horse's mouth, don't listen to a jackass. - Unknown

Walk lightly in the spring; Mother Earth is
pregnant. - Native American Indian
Proverb

Friday, 25 September 2015

A
monk decides to meditate alone, away from his monastery. He takes his boat out
to the middle of the lake, moors it there, closes his eyes and begins his
meditation.

After
a few hours of undisturbed silence, he suddenly feels the bump of another boat
colliding with his own. With his eyes still closed, he senses his anger rising,
and by the time he opens his eyes, he is ready to scream at the boatman who
dared disturb his meditation.

But
when he opens his eyes, he sees it’s an empty boat that had probably got
untethered and floated to the middle of the lake.
At that moment, the monk achieves self-realization, and understands that the
anger is within him; it merely needs the bump of an external object to provoke
it out of him.

From
then on, whenever he comes across someone who irritates him or provokes him to
anger, he reminds himself, “The other person is merely an empty boat. The anger
is within me.”

Thursday, 24 September 2015

The things that will destroy us are: politics
without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge
without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and
worship without sacrifice. - Mohandas K.
Gandhi

In my life I have found two things of
priceless worth – learning and loving. Nothing else – not fame, not power, not
achievement for its own sake – can possible have the same lasting value. For
when your life is over, if you can say “I have learned”, and “I have loved,”
you will also be able to say “I have been happy.” - Arthur C. Clarke

Enjoy the present, each moment as it comes, because
you'll never get another one quite like it. And if you should ever look up and
find yourself lost, simply take a breath and start over. Retrace your steps and
go back to the purest place in your heart, where your hope lives. You'll find
your way again. - Julia Brown

Monday, 21 September 2015

All the world's a stage, and it's a dead easy
guess which sex has all the speaking parts. - Robert Elliot Gonzales

Artificial
intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. - Unknown

Before I was married, I had a hundred
theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and
no theories. - John Wilmot

Behind every successful man there is a
surprised woman. - Maryon Pearson

Children in the back seat cause accidents,
accidents in the back seat cause children! - Unknown

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my
advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. - W. Somerset Maugham

Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there
are footprints on the moon. - Paul Brandt

Even though a number of people have tried, no
one has yet found a way to drink for a living. -Jean Kerr

Everyone
loses hair, but men do it better - faster, earlier, and more extensively. - Unknown

For
24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say 'by
choice' because I have never 'accidentally' eaten anything, so when I choose to
eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much. - Zig Ziglar

I’m not offended by all the dumb-blonde jokes
because I know that I’m not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde. - Dolly Parton

Thursday, 17 September 2015

If Spring came but once a century instead of
once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence,
what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the
miraculous change. - Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from
which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal – every other
affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open – this
affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. - Washington Irving

I realized that whatever your path, whatever
your calling, the most damaging thing you can do is let other voices define you
and drown out your own. You’ve got to block them out and find that place deep
inside you, shaken but still intact, and hold on to it. - Katie Couric

Tuesday, 15 September 2015

This might be a refreshing drink. But to claim
that it melts fat in 4 days … Well, how much of this does one have to drink,
and how much fat does it ‘melts’ … Big question mark – I think. Nevertheless,
if you are dieting, no harm in giving it a try. You will at least enjoy a
refreshing drink if it fails to burn any fats.

Monday, 14 September 2015

Being single used to mean that nobody wanted
you. Now it means you're pretty sexy and you're taking your time deciding how
you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with. - Carrie Bradshaw

Expect
nothing, live frugally on surprise. - Alice
Walker

Experts say the cost of funerals have risen
by fifty percent, they blame it on the cost of living. - Unknown

He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that
you would think truth were a fool. - William
Shakespeare

How do you know my dim-witted inexperience
isn't really a subtle form of manipulation used to lower people's expectations,
thereby enhancing my ability to manoeuvre myself within any given situation? - Unknown

I celebrate myself, and sing myself. - Walt Whitman

Marriage is the only war where one sleeps
with the enemy. - Tommy Lee

That’s a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast
on the lip of a lion. - William
Shakespeare

The woman who tells her real age is either
too young to have anything to lose, or too old to have anything to gain. - Chinese Saying

There
are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. - Indira Gandhi

We get too soon old and too late smart. - Unknown

Women's eyes have pierced more hearts than
ever did the bullets of war. - William
Scott Downey

Thursday, 10 September 2015

Opinion
is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no
understand. The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to
suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose
larger than the self-kind of understanding. - Bill Bullard

It’s a feature of our age that if you write a
work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are
disguised biography – but if you write your biography, it’s equally assumed
you’re lying your head off. - Margaret
Atwood

The greatest degree of inner tranquillity
comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the
happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Friday, 4 September 2015

Not
everything is supposed to become something beautiful and long-lasting.
Sometimes people come into your life to show you what is right and what is
wrong, to show you who you can be, to teach you to love yourself, to make you
feel better for a little while, or to just be someone to walk with at night and
spill your life to. Not everyone is going to stay forever, and we still have to
keep on going and thank them for what they’ve given us. - Emery Allen

Let me tell you something you already know.
The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place
and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let
it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t how hard you
hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you
can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done. Now, if you know
what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be
willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you
are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you.
You’re better than that! - Rocky Balboa

Thursday, 3 September 2015

I have been
collecting Quotes since my school days. It’s a hobby and a passion of mine. Quotes
motivate and inspire me, and they taught me many lessons not learned in school. They
also serve as sign posts on my journey through life. My aim now is to compile my collection of quotes into a series of books. ‘Quote Worthy’ is the first in the series and is
now available in ePub format and Paperback at http://www.lulu.com/vincentthnay